| Show SAYS ORDINANCE IS UNLAWfUl Mayor Explains E plit ns V Veto to pf gf m a aure ure Enlarging Powers ri pf of City Olty Engineer SUPPORTED if BY t STATUTE GIVES AUTHORITY TO BOARD OF WORKS The ordinance passed pa ed by b the council last ast Monday evening conferring addi additional additional additional powers on the city cIt elt engineer was vetoed by Mayor Ezra Thompson yes yesterday yesterday terela Mayor Thompson In his veto message which will be read Tend at the next council meeting very plainly states JI ates that the or ordinance ordinance is in n direct conflict with section 86 or of the statutes defining the power of ot the board At ot public works The mayor says The Tha provisions of or this ordinance arc are arcin arcin in conflict with section of ot the revised statutes of ot 1898 19 for the reason that the provides Jes under the head of at Duty Dut of ot the City Engineer that tat the city engineer shall have general supervision of ot all contract work Section 2311 of the re revised statutes of at provides provide that th loud bard of public ImbUe works hall supervise all nil contract work and approve such Juch esti caU estimates mates mies of or the city engineer en of ot the value f r I such work as the same may progress subject however to the approval of at the council The city engineer has advised ue me that this ordinance conflicts with the section of oC tIle the statutes referred to in the particular herein mentioned I have hare no ao objection to any an other portion of the or ordinance ordinance ordinance and with the general supervision slon clause eliminated I will approve the same tame Backs Up Mayor I Incidentally it might be b mentioned that H J J DIninny assistant city attorney crew frew up the ordinance originally and when confronted by the mayor finally ac acknowledged acl l in a written opinion which is s attached to the veto that the mayors point Ig ii I well taken It ft appears that this section of at the T lanee was copied from the present codi cod codification 1 of or ordinances defining the duties of the city engineer The original ori ordinance ordInance nance flance was waH passed in hi i 1 and reenacted hI Ii S Subsequently the legislature rasse Jasse a law l w creating the board of at pub public lic I works woi and enumerating its powers This law section of ot the statutes took the place of ot the old ordinance The mayor maor in his veto did not state that the ordinance onI nance would also take away some of at the th powers of ot his honors most particular friend one Jake Raleigh su superintendent superintendent superintendent of ot streets str ets Reference was only ani made to the board of public works The facts are that the powers which the ordinance intended to give to the engineer are now exercised by Ral Raleigh Raleigh For some fome time Raleigh and the tho engineer have not been good friends both bott having halving different Ideas of doing things or in case of not doing things as one may be pleased to term tenn it Tom Torn Black has always alwan been opposed to Raleigh and his methods m and has attacked the th street department on numerous occasions Black Is chairman of the engineering committee and if It the engineer were to 10 be den Kiven more power Black would benefit for he rules the destinies of at that depart department department department ment But the mayor stood by the board of ot works and Raleigh II |
